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Will Embryonic Stem Cells Change Health Policy?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

William M. Sage
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Essays on stem cell policy seem to fall into three categories. Some essays in this collection are about logic and principles. Others are about practices and beliefs. The former group draws lines and defends them, a normative project. The latter group attempts to explain the lines that already exist, a descriptive project that may have important normative goals. Still other essays, by scientists, are about growing stem cell lines instead of drawing them.

The purpose of this essay is to situate the lines being drawn around stem cell science in the larger landscape of health policy. I am interested in the things that cause health policy to take particular directions and the consequences of those directions for cost, access, and quality — all of which are determined in part by biomedical innovations such as those potentially derived from stem cells.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , Summer 2010 , pp. 342 - 351
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2010

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